Memoir of the Chisholm

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students. At the examination in 1830, he
was not present, in consequence of ill-health ;
and, before the expiration of his third year of
residence, when those who had gratefully re-
ceived tidings of his first success, might have
looked forward to the close of his academical
career with the hope of seeing it marked by
fresh distinction, he had left the University,
It cannot and ought not to be denied,
that this was a grievous disappointment to
his best friends. It was a disappointment
aggravated too by the consciousness that he
had not always been proof against the temp-
tations to idleness which beset the path of the
young; and that, amid the gay society of
those who were quick to betray him into error,
but powerless to save him from its results, he
did violence to many a better feeling and prin-
ciple of his nature, and laid up materials for
mournful and humiliating recollection, upon
which none could pass severer judgment than
himself. It should, however, be borne in
mind, that his pursuits, at this period of his
life, were often interrupted by ill-health ; and
it is probable, therefore, that finding himself
only gathering up, at various intervals, some